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I have a related story of the first time i played Journey on PS3. I was just sorta exploring and stuff then all of a sudden i saw this character that kinda looked like me. I thought it was like a bot or something meant to have some significance to the story so i more or less ignored it for a bit then realized it was following me around. I started trying to interact with it by jumping on it, using the 'action' button to talk and stuff and it would start talking back at me (little symbols appearing over its head basically, no actual words).
I thought it was pretty novel and then all of a sudden it ran off. I thought maybe its trying to tell me something so I followed it but it didnt seem to be doing anything important, it was just sort of... playing.. Jumping up on to stuff, then back down, running in cool patterns. If I stopped following it, it would come back and check on me to see if I was still around, 'signalling' to me, etc. If i ran off the other way, it would follow me. After a short bit it started to feel less and less like some AI programmed NPC thing...
A short bit later I fell down into this area and didnt know how to get out, then all of a sudden the character jumped into the hold with me then started beeping to show me the way out. It finally snapped that it had to be a real person, the way it acted / reacted to everything I was doing was too surreal to be AI. And so I followed it. It got me out of the stuck area and then we basically... journeyed... together.. for many levels. There were times where we were sneaking around monsters trying not to get seen, times where we were solving puzzles together, and times where we would just stand and beep at eachother because that was the only actual way we could communicate.
Near the end, we were climbing this mountain together and the snow was blowing in our faces and we were taking refuge in these little nooks and crannies together and eventually trying to brave up this snow covered summit together, trying to stick together to stay warm, but the weather overtaking us. They dropped into the snow and remained still, and shortly after I did as well.... We both died, then the screen did a dissolve to white and we reappeared in this incredible sky area, able to fly.
We finally reached the end of the game and youre supposed to go through this big archway into this 'heaven' like brightly lit area, but I couldn't do it.. I didn't want to end the story, or even more, i stood at the archway completely mystified about what was going to be through it. I was basically deciding if I wanted to even know... The whole experience to that point was so surreal and so magical that I felt like walking through that archway would ruin it somehow.
So I just stood there... watching my partner walk further and further into the light... a complete stranger that I had just spent the last 2 hours somehow connecting with on an almost spiritual level yet without ever even a single spoken or written word... swallowed by light and gone forever...
- This is an amazing story, this game is indeed fantastic! It took me a while to figure out I was playing with another real person. Clever mechanic!Fabricio
- Thanks for that :)Gnash
- Didn't know that game had that mechanic. I only watched a playthrough, gorgeous, memorable, & important gamejaylarson
- What a story! Thank you for sharing_niko
- yeah when you finish the game it tells you the usernames of the players you came acrossernexbcn
- Lovelycannonball1978
- ernexbcn i had no idea... i wish i had known at the time, the fact that it was just me and that stranger for pretty much the whole game, felt pretty cool.mantrakid
- thx for reading buds!mantrakid